Well, it's pretty simple as the title says - how would I go about cleaning my computer tower safely. Yes I googled it and it said I needed a can of compressed air, is there a way to do this a different way and still effectively?
Air compressor. Though the canned air is your best bet as it's:
1) Anti-static.
2) Has no moisture.
I had a friend who actually cleaned up REALLY gunky PC parts with water. Yes, WATER. Though he waited a LONG ass-time for them to dry before re-assembling, and apparantley it's the only way he found that could get cigarette gunk off of motherboards and the like. But I DON'T recommend you try it.
You can also use a hair dryer to blow the dust out.
[QUOTE=pebkac;18059903]You can also use a hair dryer to blow the dust out.[/QUOTE]
Hair dryers have static. You are silly.
Any other tips? I can't get my hands on any canned air / compressed gas right now - i'm wondering wether just dusting it off will do? (On the inside)
Aren't canned air like, 2-5$?
Start huffing and puffing, otherwise you'd have to slowly take each part out, clean them with little water, wait a day for them to be dry enough, and finally put them all back in. Of course this may destroy some important parts.
I haven't seen any for sale where I live, then again I haven't really ventured into computer stores.
(England, by the way)
Got any....walmarts?
Nope.
Bah D:
Any store with an electronics department should have air in a can, even if its a crappy store.
Okay, thanks for the help.
[QUOTE=Daltacentauri;18061520]Got any....walmarts?[/QUOTE]
Translated: ASDA
...however ASDA don't sell that kind of shit over here.
Go into any local PC shop (NOT Currys, etc... actual computer shops) and you can buy compressed air.
You can also take a hoover hose (no attatchments) to the insides but [b]don't actually touch anything that's a circuit board.[/b]
For the heatsinks, I'd just get a 1" paint brush and take the fans off and brush the dust off and put the fans back on.
Job done.
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Also, don't hoover the fans to make them spin, it burns the motor out.
[QUOTE=CarlBooth;18061631]
Also, don't hoover the fans to make them spin, it burns the motor out.[/QUOTE]
I learned that 8 years ago :(
When I had to clean my compute tower, I just used a vacuum cleaner with a small tip.
There was also more dust than hardware, by volume, inside my pc tower.
[QUOTE=CarlBooth;18061631]Translated: ASDA
...however ASDA don't sell that kind of shit over here.
Go into any local PC shop (NOT Currys, etc... actual computer shops) and you can buy compressed air.[/QUOTE]
some supermarkets with a computing/laptops section might have some, I know there's some in this big-ass Tesco near me
PC World [I]might[/I] have some but yeah your best bet is proper PC stores
I regret using a hoover today as It fucked my graphics card :<
[QUOTE=1337asian;18061308]Hair dryers have static. You are silly.[/QUOTE]
You know, i don't exactly touch any components with the hair dryer. Ever seen any hair dryer that could produce enough static electricity to make it fly 10+ cm through the air?
[QUOTE=pebkac;18076621]You know, i don't exactly touch any components with the hair dryer. Ever seen any hair dryer that could produce enough static electricity to make it fly 10+ cm through the air?[/QUOTE]
The air being blown by the hair-dryer is dry, thereby it generates static easily as it blows by the components you're trying to clean. :science:
[QUOTE=pebkac;18076621]Ever seen any hair dryer that could produce enough static electricity to make it fly 10+ cm through the air?[/QUOTE]
You do know how static electricity works, right?
I use a hoover, no problems yet and I've been using this method since I got a PC
[QUOTE=Daltacentauri;18061690]I learned that 8 years ago :([/QUOTE]
fuck I recently did that.
wow.
Use a vacuum, It take seconds to clean the whole thing and I dunno why people don't do this.
Be careful with a hoover, I've broken 2 parts with one
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